Time, CNN suspend Fareed Zakaria over plagiarism incidents

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Time, CNN suspend Zakaria over plagiarism incidents

Time magazine and CNN suspended Fareed Zakaria, the writer and television host, on Friday after he apologized for plagiarizing sections of his column on gun control in the Aug. 20 issue of Time. Some passages in Zakaria's column, The Case for Gun Control, closely tracked those in a longer article on guns in America by the historian Jill Lepore in the April 23 issue of the New Yorker. The similar text was spotted by the conservative website Newsbusters, and appeared on the media blog JimRomenesko.com. Time said it was suspending Zakaria's column for a month, pending review. CNN said he has been suspended while the matter is under review. Fred Hiatt, the Washington Post's editorial page editor, for which Zakaria is a columnist, said he also would start examining Zakaria's work.

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